Even schools for Negroes, then, are places where they must be convinced of their inferiority. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
The mere imparting of information is not education. Above all things, the effort must result in making a man think and do… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Truth must be dug up from the past and presented to the circle of scholastics in scientific form and then through stories… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“The so-called education of Negro college graduates leads them to throw away opportunities which they have and to go in quest of… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“It was well understood that if by the teaching of history the white man could be further assured of his superiority and… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
The present system under the control of the whites trains the Negro to be white and at the same time convinces him… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
“...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share Image
Why not exploit, enslave, or exterminate a class that everybody is taught to regard as inferior? — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
For me, education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin with life as they find it and make it… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just. — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
If the Negro in the ghetto must eternally be fed by the hand that pushes him into the ghetto, he will never become strong… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
This assumption of Negro leadership in the ghetto, then, must not be confined to matters of religion, education, and social uplift; it must deal… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
“...to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless… — Carter G. Woodson Copy Share
